Dossier
Hazy Hawk
Coverage of Hazy Hawk in the Nexus archive.
- Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.
Top universities like UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and Washington University in St. Louis have subdomains serving explicit porn and malware due to administrators failing to remove expired CNAME records. Scammers linked to the Hazy Hawk group exploit these neglected records, with researcher Alex Shakhov identifying hundreds of hijacked subdomains across 34 universities.